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10 March, 2013

Orthodox Western Saints for Today

ALDETRUDIS (ADELTRUDIS), the daughter of Ss. Vincent Madelgarus (20th September) and Waldetrudis (9th April), and a niece of St. Aldegund of Maubeuge (30th January). She was entrusted to her aunt's care at this convent, eventually becoming the second abbess, and reposing circa 696.

DONATUS, JUSTUS, HERENA AND COMPANIONS, a group of fifty martyrs who suffered in North Africa under Decius during the third century.

ETHELBERT (ALBERT) OF KENT, King of Kent, and High King of England, St. Ethelbert protected St. Augustine's (27th May) mission, and may have been baptised by him as early as Pentecost 597. And while he never tried to compel his subjects into becoming Christians, thousands followed his apostolic example. St. Ethelbert reposed in 616.

VICTOR, a monk at St. Gall, who became a hermit in the Vosges Mountains in Lorraine where he reposed in 995.

WALBURGH (WALBURGA), the sister of Ss. Willibald (7th July) and Winebald (18th December). She became a nun at Wimborne in Dorset in England with St. Tetta (28th September) and later followed St. Lioba (28th September) to Germany. She reposed as Abbess of Heidenheim in 779. Her relics were translated to Eichstätt, and miraculous healings come from the oil which still flows from the rock on which her shrine is placed.

* - Prior to the Schism the Patriarchate of Rome was Orthodox and fully in communion with the Orthodox Church. As Saint John of Shanghai
and San Francisco +1966 said "The West was Orthodox for a thousand years, and her venerable Liturgy is far older than any of her heresies."

Who is John that Theologian?

Dr. John (Ellsworth) Hutchison-Hall is a contemporary Orthodox Christian Pastoral and Moral theologian, philosopher, historian and cultural commentator. He has served as a Field Education Supervisor for seminarians, and as both a hospital and disaster response chaplain. In addition, he has run support groups for people with mental illness, and provides pastoral counselling. He has lectured widely and written on pastoral care in disaster, and compiled several service books. His latest work "Orthodox Saints of the British Isles" is the first comprehensive compendium of the Lives of Orthodox saints of the British Isles; it will total four volumes and be followed by a four volume work of the Lives of Orthodox saints of pre-Schism Western Europe. He has a Licentiate in Pastoral Theology and a Doctorate of Ministry in Pastoral Counselling.